Wizz Air Holdings PLC September 2019 Traffic and CO2 Emission Statistics (4062O)

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Wizz Air Holdings PLC

02 October 2019

SEPTEMBER 2019 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS IN SEPTEMBER BY 20% TO 3.8 MILLION

LOAD FACTOR INCREASES BY 0.5PPTs TO 94.5%

Ticker: WIZZ

Geneva, 2 October 2019: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for September 2019.

In September 2019, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering as follows:

-- Route network expansion with the announcement of 24 new routes to Poland (14x), Hungary (3x) and Romania (7x), as well as Brussels Zaventem as a new destination.

-- Base expansion with the allocation of 5 new aircraft to Budapest (+1), Warsaw (+1), Gdansk (+1) and Krakow (+2).

   --      Wizz Air was named "The Best Low Cost Carrier of the Year" at the European Aviation Awards. 

-- Wizz Air continuously operates at the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km amongst all competitor airlines. At 56.9 grams, CO2 emissions in grams per passenger/km for the month of September were 3.6% lower than in the same month last year.

 
                             Month                         Rolling 12 months to: 
                    ----------------------  ---------  ----------------------------  -------- 
                     September   September    Change    31 September   31 September   Change 
                        2019        2018                    2019           2018 
                    ----------              ---------  -------------                 -------- 
 Capacity (seats)    4,037,074   3,372,988    19.7%      40,600,480     35,636,614     13.9% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -------------  -------------  -------- 
 Passengers*         3,816,913   3,173,280    20.3%      37,915,897     32,763,832     15.7% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -------------  -------------  -------- 
 Load Factor**         94.5%       94.1%     0.5 ppts      93.4%          91.9%       1.4ppts 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -------------  -------------  -------- 
 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 
                              Month                       Rolling 12 months to: 
                     ----------------------  -------  ----------------------------  ------- 
                      September   September   Change   31 September   31 September   Change 
                         2019        2018                  2019           2018 
                     ----------              -------  -------------                 ------- 
 Available Seat 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              6,614,802   5,438,506   21.6%     66,218,639     56,951,985    16.3% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -------------  -------------  ------- 
 Revenue Passenger 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              6,272,560   5,120,861   22.5%     62,001,912     52,472,878    18.2% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -------------  -------------  ------- 
 

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics

 
                               Month                       Rolling 12 months to: 
                      ----------------------  -------  ----------------------------  ------- 
                       September   September   Change   31 September   31 September   Change 
                          2019        2018                  2019           2018 
                      ----------              -------  -------------                 ------- 
 CO2 emissions 
  in tonnes*            357,133     302,517    18.1%     3,568,447      3,116,384     14.5% 
                      ----------  ----------  -------  -------------  -------------  ------- 
 CO2 grams 
  per passenger/km*      56.9        59.1      -3.6%        57.6           59.4       -3.1% 
                      ----------  ----------  -------  -------------  -------------  ------- 
 

*rounded to one decimal place

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air is the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, operates a fleet of 119 Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft, and offers more than 710 routes from 25 bases, connecting 151 destinations across 44 countries. At Wizz Air, a team of more than 4,500 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low ticket prices making Wizz Air the preferred choice of over 37 million passengers in the past 12 months. Wizz Air is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker WIZZ and is included in the FTSE 250 and FTSE All-Share Indices. Wizz Air is registered under the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), the global benchmark in airline safety recognition. The company recently received the highest 7-star safety rating by airlineratings.com, the world's only safety and product rating agency, and was recently named 2017 - European Airline of the Year by Aviation 100, a renowned annual publication that recognizes the year's most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry.

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 For more information: 
 
 Investors:    Evelin Horvath, Wizz Air                 [phone] 
 
 Media:        Tamara Vallois, Wizz Air:                [phone] 
  Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI 
   Consulting LLP:                                      [phone] 
 
 

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